Health Sector Review or Diagnosis
A health sector review helps to assess the sector's organisation and performance. It can be used by governments to identify areas for improvement or by development agencies to assess sector performance with a view to engage in sector support or sector wide approaches (SWAp).
A health sector review can be a one-off exercise, for example in the context of developing a multi-year strategic health sector plan, or a regular annual exercise to monitor sector performance in the context of SWAp. It can be used for comprehensive reviews, covering all important aspects of the sector, or for specific sub-sectors (e.g. pharmaceutical sector reviews); but also for cross-sector strategies such as human resources, sector financing, public private partnerships or even for cross-sector issues such as HIV/AIDS, good governance and gender.
HERA has developed a specific tool for implementing broad health sector reviews but has also substantial experience in focused reviews. HERA has carried out sector reviews in more than 25 countries worldwide, including in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Mediterranean, Caribbean, Pacific and Eastern Europe.
